They Hope the President Fails

By "they" I meant American Democrats. Not the establishment; the rank and file. And by "President", I meant George W. Bush.

In a poll (PDF file) conducted in August of 2006, one of the questions was this:

10. Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?

Yes

No

Don’t know

8-9 Aug 06

63%

32

5

Democrats

40%

51

9

Republicans

90%

7

2

Independents

63%

34

3

Hat tip: Patterico, who notes that we were in the thick of a war whose outcome was uncertain. When Democrats try to take the moral or patriotic high ground regarding what one man, Rush Limbaugh, said, just remind them what a majority of all of them said just 2 1/2 years ago.